As a child growing up, I don’t remember hearing about many people dying. Maybe my mom was protecting me from hearing about death or maybe it was truly the fact that few people in my world were really dying… In fact, our family unit (immediate and extended) stayed pretty much in tact throughout my childhood … Continue reading
“Girl, you need to quit smoking — smoking will kill you…” “Chiiiile you better stop all of that drinking… drinking is going to be the death of you…I hope you’re not out here driving drunk…” “How many calories is that?…you know you shouldn’t eat that…you know half of your family has diabetes….don’t you want to be … Continue reading
Pardon me as I become blogger/writer number one trillion and nine hundred billion and one to write about Maya Angelou this week, but since the world just lost a brilliant writer and poet, I suddenly found myself compelled to rededicate myself to my own writing, my own storytelling, my own lyrical journey… Like so many, … Continue reading
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